Science: Human Fly

A laboratory worker (anonymous) who set out to answer this inhuman
question reported the fly's feelings in the current British Medical
Journal.

A year ago, experimenting to find out whether the potent insecticide
would irritate human skin, the 30-year-old Briton painted his hands
with D.D.T. dissolved in acetone. Then he kneaded some dough heavily
impregnated with it. When his skin seemed none the worse, he considered
the experiment complete, went on to other things. A few days later his
arms and legs began to feel heavy. Soon they began to ache violently
and "spasms...